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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



There are very few Greyhounds that have 

 won the Waterloo Cup more than once, but 

 Cerito, whose portrait appears in the group 



LORD LURGAN'S MASTER McGRATH. 



GEORGE EARL 



on the opposite page, was credited with it 

 three times, namely, in 1850, 1852, and 1853, 

 when it was a thirty-two dog stake. Cana- 

 radzo, Bit of Fashion, Miss Glendine, 

 Herschel, Thoughtless Beauty, and Fabulous 

 Fortune, are probably some of the best Grey- 

 hounds that ever ran besides those already 

 alluded to. Bit of Fashion was the dam of 

 Fullerton, who shares with Master McGrath 

 the reputation of being the two best Grey- 

 hounds that ever ran. But Master 

 McGrath came first ; he was the 

 property of Lord Lurgan, and was 

 wonderfully quick to his hare, and 

 when there made good use of 

 his teeth. It was these qualifi- 

 cations which helped him so 

 greatly in his courses, as he had 

 short spins which took but little 

 out of him. No Greyhound prob- 

 ably has had so many honours 

 heaped upon him as Master 

 McGrath, as at the command of 

 the late Queen Victoria he was 

 taken to Windsor Castle, there 

 to be introduced to Her Majesty. 

 During his remarkable career in 

 public he won thirty-six courses 

 out of thirty-seven, the only time 

 that he was defeated being in 



1870 at his third attempt to win the 

 Waterloo Cup, and the flag went up in 

 favour of Mr. Trevor's Lady Lyons. He, 

 however, retrieved his good fortune the 

 following year, when he again ran through 

 the stake. 



Fullerton, who, when he won all his 

 honours, was the property of Colonel North, 

 was bred by Mr. James Dent in Northumber- 

 land. Colonel North gave 850 guineas for 

 him, which was then stated to be the highest 

 price ever paid -for a Greyhound. He ran 

 five times altogether for the Waterloo Cup, 

 and was declared the winner on four occa- 

 sions. The first time was in 1889, when he 

 divided with his kennel companion Trough- 

 end. Then he won the Cup outright the three 

 following years. In 1893, however, after 

 having been put to the stud, at which he 

 proved a failure, he was again trained for the 

 Cup, but age had begun to tell its tale, and 

 after winning one course he was beaten by 

 Mr. Keating's Full Captain, in the second. 

 This was one of the two occasions upon 

 which out of thirty-three courses he failed 

 to raise the flag. On the other he was 

 beaten by Mr. Gladstone's Greengage, when 

 running the deciding course at Haydock 

 Park. 



It was a great disappointment to Colonel 

 North that Fullerton proved useless for 



SIR R. W. BUCHANAN-JARDINE'S LONG 

 BY FATELEY BRIDGE FOREST FAIRY. 



Photograph by If. H. Pugh. I iverpool 



